KUPPET demands more teachers be recruited ahead of 2025 Grade 9 enrollment.
In order to prepare for the 2025 enrollment of Grade 9, the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) is urging the government to hire more teachers.
Teachers are the most crucial resource that schools should have before Grade 9 enrollment begins in 2025, according to Kuppet Secretary General Akelo Misori, who spoke with the Star.
“Teachers are the first resource that ought to be availed to schools. If learners do not have teachers, then everything is wrong,” he stated.
According to Misori, students may get by in school without additional resources, but not without a teacher’s help.
“What we are saying is that the government must employ teachers because we can not have education without teachers in school. We can miss to have laboratories but we must have teachers. That is the first remedy to the resources issues,” Misori stated.
According to the Kuppet representative, the curriculum’s creators are aware of the types of educators required to carry it out.
“TSC must rationalise how to post those teachers to ensure learners have the teachers they need,” Misori stated.
Hassan Farah, the chairperson of the Kenya Primary Schools Headteachers Association for North Eastern, stated that the area needs educators with a focus on STEM fields.
“Most of the teachers that have been posted to this area are those who are not subject specialists in STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics). Most teachers here are trained in Social Sciences not STEM. We need STEM teachers,” he stated.
Furthermore, according to Farah, there are typically no facilities in the area that are prepared for use by the students entering Grade 9.
“But the government was saying they would be doing construction very soon. There are three schools in every zone that have been identified for the first phase of classroom construction,” he stated.
According to Farah, schools require labs in addition to classroom space.
Sanitation facilities are currently needed by many, as the recent floods wrecked them.
“We have also had winds that have destroyed most of the toilets in schools. So that facility is necessary and we direly need it,” Farah stated.
Headteachers are worried about the lack of resources, such as desks, chairs, restrooms, and laboratories, while schools around the nation wait for Grage 9 enrollment.
However, the government has just disclosed its plans to build classrooms.
Classrooms will be made available by the ministry by January, according to Basic Education PS Belio Kipsang.
“By January, when our schools reopen, 16,000 classrooms will be available to teach Grade 9 students. This is a duty that the government will see to it that is fulfilled, Belio stated.
Simultaneously, the government has committed to employing 26,000 instructors on JSS intern contracts by July 1, 2024.
KUPPET demands more teachers be recruited ahead of 2025 Grade 9 enrollment.
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